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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Norman Wisdom

Charting Feb 19, 1954Apr 12, 1957 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 20 wk

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Peak Power
2.26%
week of May 28, 1954
Career Power
53
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
41
June 1953 – May 1954
Peak Five Years
53
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.36%
week of Apr 9, 1954
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

2 records · 53 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Don't Laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)#31541.4
The Wisdom of a Fool#13511.2

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At their peak

1953 in music

Norman Wisdom's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1953 to May 1954. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Frankie Laine239
  2. 2Guy Mitchell152
  3. 3Mantovani122
  4. 4David Whitfield107
  5. 5Eddie Fisher79
  6. 6Frank Chacksfield76
  7. 7Nat King Cole73
  8. 8Eddie Calvert65
  9. 9Obernkirchen Children's Choir57
  10. 10Ron Goodwin56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.